Convert iMovie Videos to MP4 on Mac

When all the editing is done in iMovie, your project is to be exported so it can exist as a movie.There’re different ways to export your video: finalize project, save in a digital format or upload online. There are many occassions that you want to make the iMovie exported movies saved in MP4 format, which is supposed to be universally compatible across all platforms and operating systems. If you have no idea about that, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we aim to show you how to share iMovie video to MP4 format with two simple ways.

Method I: Using QuickTime to Export iMovie Video to MP4

Firstly, we are going to teach you how to transfer iMovie videos to MP4 via using the features of iMovie itself – QuickTime item. Follow the steps to learn the instructions on converting iMovie to MP4 nicely on Mac OS X.

1) Launch the iMovie and get into the main interface. Click “Share > Export using QuickTime” at the top menu bar.

2) Then a window named “Save exported file as…” pops up. Click “Export” option and find “Movie to MPEG-4” in the drop-down menu. If you need to make some settings to the file video format, you can click Settings button; if not, directly hit on “Save” button to export a mp4 file from iMovie.

Note: Using the above way, you can export iMovie video to MP4 files easily. However, the exported iMovie files can’t be recognized by your device or rejected by the video sharing website sometimes due to the video/video codec incompatibility issue. In this case, you can seek for a better method.

Method II: Converting iMovie videos to MP4 with third-party tool

In this way, if the exported files still cannot recognized by your devices or are rejected by the video sharing websites, we here highly suggest you to use this professional iMovie to MP4 Converter on Mac – EaseFab Video Converter for Mac. It can convert iMovie to MP4 in HD, as well as AVI, WMV, etc. so that you can watch them on Windows computer, android devices, and more. What’s more, this program can also works well with different videos from other NLEs like FCP, Premiere Pro, etc. Let’s together see how to convert iMovie to MP4 for Mac OS X.

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Follow the step-by-step tutorial to convert iMovie videos to MP4 format on Mac

As mentioned above, first you need to export your finished movie from iMovie to Mac, either through Share > Export Movie or simply pressing Command+E to open a dialog and export your movie to computer. The movie will be saved into M4V or MOV depending on your selected option. Now let’s begin the iMovie to MP4 conversion process.

Step 1: Import iMovie exported video

To add your iMovie videos to video converter, you have two options: directly drag and drop the iMovie output video to the program, or head to choose Add Video button.

Step 2: Specify the output settings

Then click “Profile” and select MP4 as the output format. If you want to convert iMovie exported to MP4 for iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy, Google Nexus, etc., you can browse to find any video preset as the output format.

For advanced functions?

1. Click the “Edit” button to open the Video Edit window to achieve editing MP4 like trim, crop, image, watermark, effect, subtitles and rotate and etc in the corresponding editing pane.
2. Click the “Setting” button to open the Settings window to adjust the output video codec, resolution, bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio codec, channel, volume and etc in the advanced tab.

Step 3: Start iMovie to MP4 conversion

Finally, when specifying the output format, you can click on the ‘Convert’ button on the main interface to finish the conversion. With the high conversion speed and easy operation job, it would not be hard for us to load iMovie videos to Mac OS X in MP4 format.

Conclusion:

Above are two best solutions to how to save and convert iMovie to MP4 file. In general, you can use the first way to achieve it. But if the first way can’t meet your need, the software introduced in the 2nd part can help you as well. Just have a try!

Read More:

How to export iMovie video to Flash FLV videos
How to Share and Convert iMovie to WMV on Mac
How to Export and Convert iMovie Projects to AVI on Mac